This Thursday (8th October) is what’s known as ‘Super Thursday’, with more than 500 new titles being published in a single day – more than twice the average for a publication day. That’s a hell of a lot of books to choose from. So, who are the main contenders this year? Which books will take […]

With the 2015 Rugby World Cup up and running, now’s the perfect time to invest in some rugger-related reading materials. We’ve got an exclusive extract from Bomb, the autobiography of Wales legend Adam Jones, talking about his first World Cup experience back in 2003… We flew down under more in hope than expectation, but it […]

Only the very best books get the ‘Books Worth Staring At’ sticker, and here’s the latest to achieve this… The book: The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson Published: September 2015, by Faber & Faber Why we loved it: A man and a woman meet in an airport bar and get chatting. After a few […]

With his hilarious autobiography Where Am I? out now, cricket legend and all-round hero Phil Tufnell picks his cultural highlights… BOOK Well, it’s a bit cheeky but I’ll have to say one of my own! I won’t push it too far and say my new one, though! I really enjoyed doing Tuffers’ Cricket Tales a few […]

We all love books, especially our little mascot, Mr Book. But how do they come to be? And who are the people who play a key role in getting books on shelves? Following on from our piece by Fishbowl author Bradley Somer, today we’re continuing our look at a book’s journey to publication by asking… What […]

We all love books, especially our little mascot, Mr Book. But how do they come to be? And who are the people who play a key role in getting books on shelves? In the first in a new series, we look at Mr Book’s journey, from an idea in a writer’s head, right through to […]